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OTTAWA — The federal Immigration Department is changing its express entry system to give more points to would-be newcomers who have siblings already in Canada and for those with strong French-language skills.
The department says the new rules go into effect on Tuesday.
It says the changes are aimed to help support the integration of skilled workers and increase growth, vitality and prosperity of in Francophone minority communities across the country.

TORONTO — With three and a half years still to go, the federal government is seeking the public’s advice on how to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation.
“How do we brand the 150th anniversary?” said Shelly Glover, minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, at an event Wednesday at Toronto’s holiest hockey shrine, the former Maple Leaf Gardens, now a university athletic centre.

TORONTO — Bargain shopping does not appear to be going out of style in Canada, if the continued strong performance is any indication from the operator of the Winners and HomeSense chains, which Tuesday posted stronger results in Canada than in the U.S., Europe and Australia.

In 2017, Canada is set to welcome 300,000 new immigrants, enriching the country’s already diverse mosaic of cultures. Canada’s renowned enthusiasm for embracing immigrants helps makes the transition easier. However, learning the financial system and setting up services like banking can be overwhelming, no matter how long you’ve been in Canada.

BOUCHERVILLE, QUE. — The CEO of Lowe’s Canada, Sylvain Prud’homme, says he has found a house just five minutes from the new national headquarters that was relocated here from Burlington, Ont., after the acquisition of Quebec’s Rona Inc. went through last Friday.
However, Prud’homme says he isn’t quite ready to move into his new place.

FCA Canada Inc.’s sales plunged 14 per cent in July as the company adopted a new way of counting its transactions following a reporting scandal south of the border.
The decline was led by a 63 per cent drop in Fiat-brand vehicles and a 31 per cent drop in Chrysler-brand vehicles. Excluding fleet sales, the overall decline was 16 per cent.

Despite signs of slowing domestic growth, Canadian banks continue to enjoy a growing global reputation.
Canada ranks fourth among the world’s most valuable banking countries on a league table produced by consultancy Brand Finance and published in the February edition of The Banker magazine. That’s up two notches from sixth position last year.

by Keith Weiner The popular view today is based on the linear Quantity Theory of Money. It seems to be common sense. If more units of a currency are issued, then the value of each unit should fall. Many people may not think of it in explicit terms, but the idea is that the value of one unit of a currency is 1/N, where N is the total money supply. If you double the money supply, then you halve the value of each currency unit.

Much of the debate over fiscal policy has occurred in Keynesian terms but its worth pointing out that it's perfectly reasonable to discuss fiscal policy in a monetarist framework. Start with the quantity theory of money MV=PY, money times velocity equals prices times real output.